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The recent release draft was one I was looking forward to with much anticipation, not only did I have two new Guilds to play with but I LOVE the new Graft ability which has already seen play in some regional decks.

My two friends Roger and Josh and I drove over to a game shop in a nearby town where we are known and always made to feel welcome. Most importantly none of the players there act like “I have the power 9 and since your parents didn’t buy them for you, this makes me the better player.” I will always visit a shop where I am made to feel welcome over a shop where people treat you like you’re beneath them even if one is a mile away and the other is 28 miles away. But I digress, the day of the event I saw the owners getting out packs of Ravnica and I thought “I hope they don’t do RGD I really didn’t want to go away with only one pack of Dissension, but they surprised up by letting us draft RGDD which was a lot better. (Which is another reason I love to go to this shop).

Once I was done drafting the Ravnica packs I ended up with the following:

This was good as it gave me a very solid Green/White base to build on, I knew in Dissension I had more chances at Green/Blue and Blue/White with a lot of auras and counterspells in Guildpact I was hoping to play maybe a 3 color Green/White with a splash of Blue.

Once I was done drafting Guildpact packs I had the following to build with:

In my first game I was playing someone who was trying to make the Hellbent mechanic work for him only to run into a swamp shortage – the final blow for him came from me using Might of The Nephilim on an Azorius First- Wing to finish him off in a sweep of both games.

My second game was up against someone who was also trying to make the Rakdos Hellbent mechanic work. He actually got off Delirium Skeins

to make us both discard to an empty hand each but I pulled out creatures quicker to put him away in a two game sweep

My closest game came the next match; I was paired up against my friend Josh who had also swept his first two games. The first game came down to a very close match; we were both hitting on each other with our Guardians of the Guildpact but the deciding move was when I attacked him leaving only one Transguild Courier

with the Trial portion of Trial and error bouncing all of his creatures back to his hand and leaving him with not enough blockers to block me on the next turn. The next game just had too many creatures coming out to hit him quick and finish him off for my third sweep.

My Final game came down to two very long games until I got some of my heavy hitters out with trample to take him down. The Ghost Warden